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Number of Lecture 04
Exam Marks 60
Hours/Week
CREDITS - 04
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The objectives of this course is to make students to learn basics of Civil
Engineering concepts and infrastructure development, solve problems involving
Forces, loads and Moments and know their applications in allied subjects. It is a
pre-requisite for several courses involving Forces, Moments, Centroids, Moment
of inertia and Kinematics.
Particulars Hours
Module 1: Introduction to Civil Engineering &Engineering 10
Mechanics
Introduction to Civil Engineering
Scope of different fields of Civil Engineering - Surveying, Building
Materials, Construction Technology, Geotechnical Engineering,
Structural Engineering, Hydraulics, WaterResources and Irrigation
01
Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering.
Module 5: Kinematics 10
Concepts and Applications 02
Definitions – Displacement – Average velocity – Instantaneous velocity
– Speed – Acceleration - Average acceleration – Variable acceleration –
Acceleration due to gravity – Newton’s Laws of Motion.
Rectilinear Motion–Numerical problems. 02
Curvilinear Motion – Super elevation – ProjectileMotion – Relative 03
motion – Numerical problems.
Motion under gravity – Numerical problems. 03
COURSE OUTCOMES
After a successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
1. Know basics of Civil Engineering, its scope of study, knowledge about Roads,
Bridges and Dams;
2. Comprehend the action of Forces, Moments and other loads on systems of
rigid bodies;
3. Compute the reactive forces and the effects that develop as a result of the
external loads;
4. Locate the Centroid and compute the Moment of Inertia of regular cross-
sections.
5. Express the relationship between the motion of bodies and
6. Equipped to pursue studies in allied courses in Mechanics.
TEXT BOOKS
1. Elements of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics by M.N. Shesha
Prakash and Ganesh. B. Mogaveer, PHI Learning, 3rd Revised edition (2014)
2. Engineering Mechanics-Statics and Dynamics by A Nelson, Tata McGraw Hill
Education Private Ltd, New Delhi, 2009.
3. Elements of Civil Engineering (IV Edition) by S.S. Bhavikatti, New Age
International Publisher, New Delhi, 3rd edition 2009.
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